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From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Shall we fix the use of Up/Dn arrows?
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:53:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dd6fe68a1001231653j41af3492rebb57fd958cded9c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a560a5d01001231125u655a223dsa0e9e117f0f97796@mail.gmail.com>

>> 2. The Plan 9 editors have no built-in concept of a line.
>> (Going to line 10 in sam requires counting ten newlines from the beginning.)
>
> Not sure how the concept of a line delimited by newlines relates to
> moving the cursor up one physical line on the screen.

That's exactly the point.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-24  0:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-23  9:15 Yi DAI
2010-01-23  9:35 ` Akshat Kumar
2010-01-23  9:59 ` Bela Valek
2010-01-23 10:21 ` John Stalker
2010-01-23 14:29   ` Patrick Kelly
2010-01-23 12:37 ` cinap_lenrek
2010-01-23 12:52 ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-01-23 13:07   ` Yi DAI
2010-01-23 17:13   ` blstuart
2010-01-23 19:01     ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-01-25 17:20       ` maht
2010-01-26 11:50         ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-01-26 12:26           ` yy
2010-01-26 12:34           ` Robert Raschke
2010-01-26 14:16             ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-23 19:10 ` Russ Cox
2010-01-23 19:25   ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-01-24  0:53     ` Russ Cox [this message]
2010-01-24  7:08 ` Frederik Caulier
2010-01-24  9:08   ` Yi DAI
2010-01-24 18:03 ` Tim Newsham
2010-01-24 22:28   ` Charles Forsyth
2010-01-24 18:41 ` John Floren
2010-01-25  9:46 ` Pavel Klinkovsky

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